Custom theme project
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So I'm about to embark on a custom theme design adventure.
Here's the main objective: To have a sidebar on every page. I know somebody is sick of hearing about a sidebar, but...
To make that happen, there'll be a sidebar.tpl in the themes folder, just like header.tpl (and footer.tpl), and it will be called from every page that needs a sidebar. Is that the proper way to go about it in Bootstrap? I'm new to Bootstrap, so your input on how to go about this the right way is welcome. -
That's only if you're planning on that sidebar being constant across all pages?
If that's the case your best bet and most easiest route would be:
header.tpl:
// all usual header code <div class="col-xs-9">
footer.tpl:
</div> <div class="col-xs-3"> //sidebar content </div> // all usual footer code
this is the way to go if you don't want to dive too much into the code (ex. attempting to require a sidebar.tpl into the template)
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It gets messy when you try to hack it this way. I was attempting to remove the sidebar code from home.tpl, then copy it to
<div class="col-xs-3">//sidebar content</div>
infooter.tpl, but it does not work very well. The best approach would be to require a sidebar.tpl.